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...Whither is fled the visionary gleam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/23/1935 | See Source »

...Theodore Roosevelt was moving out of the White House, a Brazilian army engineer named Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon, running a telegraph line through the untracked fastnesses of central Brazil, glimpsed the headwaters of an unmapped river that flowed he knew not whither. He called it Rio da Dúvida-"River of Doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rio Teodoro | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...plot against his life, the third reported in two months, was discovered. At the Quezon home near Baguio, the summer capital, whither the would-be President will hasten as soon as he reaches Manila, there were unearthed eleven cases of dynamite stolen from a construction camp, enough to blow him far beyond reach of any earthly honors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES,WOMEN: Politician v. Patriot v. Priest | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

Died. Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, 75, "Burbank of Russia," creator of 300 new varieties of plants; of stomach cancer; in Michurinsk, whither Dictator Stalin had dispatched his best physicians. Ignored by the Tsarist Government but encouraged by Lenin, Michurin was given 20,000 acres, was credited with developing a blend of apple & cherry, a hybrid watermelon-cantaloupe, a lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...McDowell thereupon rode back to his two-story wooden mansion at Danville, whither Mrs. Crawford soon followed, on horseback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ovariotomy No. 1 | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

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